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Outdoors on reddish-brown earth, a man with long dark hair and bare shoulders wears an orange-saffron cloth wrap and stands beside a large stacked pyre of wooden logs and sticks set on a brick base with a pinkish powder ring around it. He extends his right arm over the pyre as if directing or placing an offering. Behind him, several people in white clothes and orange robes sit on a grass lawn near a green-yellow bus, with a second person in blue seated beside a small metal box and ritual items. Green hills and trees fill the background under a pale sky. The scene appears to be a cremation or final funeral rite. The man's presence cannot be confirmed from appearance alone; he is described by role and clothing only.

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